Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-11-14
A BRIGHT R
OF NEWS ITENS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE
INTERIOR OF THE STATE.
A Large Collection Of the BSt Things Found in tht
Columns Of the Weekly Journals Of
the Back Counties.

A wildcat was killed in Monroe county
last week.
Buchanan is the last town to catch the
military feeling.
The Weston Sporting Club is to have a
fox hunt on the 22d.
The Braxton county forest fires did a
great amount of damage.
Five sons Of Mr.. NJ. T. Conway, Of
MonOngalia county, are ministers.
A. NJ. Isenharte, of Calhoun county,
caught a panther in II bear trap, a few
days ago.
The Huntington railroad shops are build
ing tank cars for the purpose Of hauling
water during the continuance of the
draught.
A. recent Grant county grand jury found
q number of indictments against a leading
mercantile firm for selling Jamaica ginger
as a beverage.
One day last week, a little son Of John
Crist, of Mill Creek, Grant county, acct
dentally cut the thumb and fore finger OF
his baby brothers right hand off with a
Ratchet.
The recent term of Boone County Cir
cult Court contributed two women TO the
p%enitentiary. Both women having child
rem, efforts are being made toward secur-
ing them a pardon.
George Rush, who was confined in jail
at st. Mary's on the charge Of having
burned a valuable barn, has been. released,
~ 80 ha;nn ~ fSniEp Mt tn hold
him to answer to the grand jury.
The Good Templar Lodge at Wick, w.
Va, was entered by thieves a few days
ago and robbed of charter, rituals, odes,
regalias, books, ballots, lamps-in fact,
everything that the Lodge owned.
C. E. Ellis, of Newburg, has, up to
date, expended about $1,000 of the relief
fund that was so generously contributed
for the benefit of those who were so dis
tressed by the awful mine disaster over n
year ago.
The little town of Bayard, Grant coun-
ty, is epioying a boom at this time. A
| fourteen.foot vein of coal has been discov-
cred there and the lumber business Is big.
| About twenty-five houses are being erect
ed, and people are moving in.
Reports from the wild and mountainous
portions Of the State are to the effect that
there is a plentiful supply OF game. Along
the South Branch the rattle Of musketry az
the wild ducks are slaughtered by hundred,
is said to he equal almost to that heard
during ''wah times"
Charles Anderson, who was so seriously
stabbed some time ago by Will King, not
far from R~ockpOrt, Wood county, has at
last passed the critical stage and will re-
cover. 1t was at first generally believed
that he was mortally wounded. King will
no doubt be glad to know that his victim
will not die.
There are at present 90 pupils in the
deaf, dumb and blind asylum at Romney.
OF these So are deaf and &c blind. This
includes two colored pupils from Balti-
more. The school is reported to be in ex-
cellent condition with everything moving
along nicely under the new administration
of Superintendent GiikesOn.
A small boy in Grafton a few days ago
got hold of a box of pills that his parents
had left within reach and concluded oplay
doctor. He gave his next younger brother
six, another smaller brother four and the
baby two. The pills being of the energetic,
industrious kind, began to work immedi-
ately, and the way that family moved
around for the next twenty-four hours was
a caution to young doctors.
Alfred OFT, of Elizabeth District, Writ
county, is the owner of al eight day clock
which has been in The OFT family and hand
ed down from generation to generation for
the last one hundred and seventy-fve
years. The clock is now in a good state OF
preservation. The frame is Of walnut, aud
the works are all made of wood. 1t keeps
perfect time, indicates the changes of the
moon, and the number of days it is old.
How is this for quick work? A few
days ago a large tree stood near Beverly.
One day it was cut down, aud the next
day it was shipped 10 the West Grafton
pump factory cut up aud made into pumps
1t had been cut at Beverly, sent to the fac
tory at West Grafton, sawed up into pump
stuff, turned into pumps, bored out,
painted, completely finished aud shipped
east all inside of thirty-siX hours and it
wasn't a very good day for work either.
Logan Council, infant son of W 7. Con-
nell, Grant county, was killed last Thurs.
day afternoon. His death was caused by
the falling of a mill wheel, which has been
standing by the Eagle mill for several
years. The child was playing about the
mill, and in attempting to get upon the
wheel it turned over, buryiDg the little
fellow beneath it. He had his little wagon
with him, and it was broken to pieces.
Logan was .ound a few minutes after the
wheel fell, but his neck being broken, life
was extinct.
The Princeton Journal says that there
was a shooting affair at Concord last Tues
day night, in which a young man named
Wright was shot by Mrs. Levi Martin.
| Wright, it seems, was demanding admit.
lance at Mrs. Martins door, but re-
fused to tell his name, and Mrs. Martin
fired through the door, the ball striking
Wright IN the cheek and entering his
mouth. He swallowed the ball, and COM
plains but little of his wound. John Ling
was shot at Fetterman by Mrs. C~OvingtOn
undder the same circumstances
A few days ago Mr.. David DOdd, living
near Falling Waters, Berkeley county, had
occasion to leave his house for the day,
leaving his two daughters by themselves.
A snort time after he had gone, a tramp
came along and inquired for Mr.. Dodd,
and upon being informed that he was not
at home, dropped his bundle and took a
chair upon the porch. After waiting
awhile for him to leave, and seeing that he
did not Intend to 60, Miss Ada, Qaying
she wanted to have a chicken for dinner,
brought out a shot gun, loaded, in front of
the fellow, and taking aim at a chicken
knocked its head of at the first shot.
Then turning to Mr.. Tramp, she informed
him that his presence was not desired any
longer, and without waiting to argue the
question, he Immediately took his depar-
ture>
|, OGe evening last week, while Dir. Perry
Hall, who resides in Warrington district,
near the head of Bingamon creek, was re-
turning bone in a wagon, he was attacked
by two men, who jumped up into the
wagon from behind, and seizing him by
the arms and throat, demanded his money.
He attempted to tear himself from their
grasp. when one or the villains struck him
a terrific blow with a club, dislocating one
of his shoulders. Mr.. Hall made no fur
Their resistance, and the scoundrels quick
10 uart throuOh his pocEets. finding only